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Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > I can't believe I'm wasting my time on this. But I suppose that if I don't I
> > will ultimately waste more time reading about it.
>
> Did you read the messages on the list from over the weekend? I have had a
> process going on here...
I'm afraid you've lost me there.
>
> > So, can we stop debating and vote on the following separate issues. That is,
> > one vote for each issue, please. Deadline is Wed, July 3rd, 17:00 GMT.
> >
> > 1. We will branch the CVS tree into 1.1 and 1.2 branches forthwith.
>
> Let's put 1.1 on the street before distracting ourselves, okay?
Well, no, not OK, but if I don't get 3 +1s I'll have to live with it ;-)
>
> > 2. We will remove Brian's "giant" patches from 1.1.
>
> I just did that.
>
> > 3. We will have a 1.1b5 public beta.
>
> I'll be building this this afternoon. The changes that have been made are
> all very minor, ones I think we all have confidence in, and a public beta
> will delay the release *again*. Face it - we will never have a bug-free
> server. We will have a 1.1.1 - that can not be avoided. We can mitigate
> it by posting bugfix patches publicly rather than always rolling them into
> "the next release", perhaps, but there will be bug reports on 1.1 final
> (even if we sat on it for 6 months and added no functionality at all).
>
> We're on track for a Wednesday morning announcement of 1.1 final. If we
> don't have binaries for every platform there on Wednesday morning, but
> they trickle in over the next few days, that's fine with me too.
See my response to Alexei.
>
> > 4. We will revert to my scheme for determining the style guide (with additions
> > raised recently).
>
> This has *nothing* to do with the 1.1 release - at least, I hope you're
> not proposing we clean up the source code before 1.1 final (as tempting as
> an idea that sounds), particularly since from the last 12 hours of
> conversation it does not appear that we have consensus.
Did I say it had anything to do with 1.1? See the important word "separate"
above.
Cheers,
Ben.
>
> Brian
>
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